Day Care Demand – Jessica Chang, Co-founder and CEO of Wee Care – The Growing Need for Quality Day Care That Is Motivating Entrepreneurs and Caregivers to Start Their Own Centers
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Jessica Chang, co-founder, and CEO of Wee Care (weecare.com), delivers an informative overview of the current state of childcare and how quality day care services are desperately in demand. Chang's Wee Care Preschool has established a successful early childhood program for children 3 months to 6 years of age. Their comprehensive curriculum provides strong academics, creative play, as well as physical activities, all within a warm, safe, and nurturing environment. Their stimulating, structured program ensures quality interaction between the children and their teachers, as well as child to child. Children can learn valuable social skills as they interact with one another.
Chang states that Wee Care helps parents find quality, affordable, convenient care. Additionally, they assist preschool teachers, caregivers, and stay-at-home moms who seek to start their own licensed home daycare center, as Wee Care's online technology platform provides the structure they need to succeed. Chang discusses the rising cost of day care for parents, and also the low pay caregivers often receive, and her concern for all parties involved. Chang's desire is to solve the problems on both sides. Chang's, Wee Care, offers best practices advice and support, and assists with setting up the foundation for new daycare center operators. Wee Care can provide structural support to newly formed daycares and thus decrease the administrative time for operators. This allows many who choose to work with Wee Care in this manner to operate their daycare and still have another career.
The Wee Care Preschool environment offers many opportunities for learning new skills during various activities. Group activities, circle time, play time in designated play areas, science centers, and individual teacher/student skill building are all part of the program. Wee Care focuses on pre-math and reading readiness throughout the day at each of the classroom levels. Also, climber time and outdoor play activities provide physical movement and important motor skill development.
Chang gives an overview of the trends in daycare, and she details how more and more women are starting their own businesses. She discusses how technology and the desire to control your own time has motivated many people to seek employment that works for them, on their schedule, by their own rules. Thus, Wee Care is experiencing tremendous growth as individuals are enthusiastically taking on new challenges and opening home businesses.
The daycare and child development expert provides information on licensing and the standards that new daycare operators must meet in order to be approved. She underscores the advantages of working with Wee Care, as caregivers can focus on what they love, which is working with children and teaching them, while Wee Care handles the administrative obstacles that may seem daunting to some new business owners. She states the importance of curriculum, and how Wee Care takes the stress out of this by providing the curriculum in advance so caregivers and teachers can simply implement it. Finally, Chang outlines the importance of cultural diversity and languages, and how they enrich the learning experience for children overall.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. My guest is Jessica Chang. |
| 0:32.0 | She's the co-founder and CEO of a company called |
| 0:35.0 | We Care, W-E-C-A-R-E, We Care. The website is We Care. They're based in LA and you know we're going to I want to spoil it. I'm going to have |
| 0:45.2 | Jessica tell us what the company's about. So Jessica thanks for coming on the |
| 0:49.1 | podcast and tell me about week care. Well, thanks Richard for inviting us. So we care is a platform for both |
| 0:57.8 | sides for parents and also providers in early child care. |
| 1:03.4 | So from one perspective that we help parents find quality, |
| 1:07.5 | affordable, and convenient care. |
| 1:09.9 | And on the other side of it, we empower the preschool teacher, the caregiver, the mom that's staying at home taking care of her kids to start their own licensed home daycare. |
| 1:20.0 | And then we help operate it utilizing our technology platform. |
| 1:24.0 | What did you see in the marketplace as the issues of problems or things that are lacking that cause you to come up with this? |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.0 | Through my experience with preschools I'm actually I |
| 1:35.3 | owned three preschools in Los Angeles and being a parent myself I recognize |
| 1:40.4 | the pain points parents were enduring when seeking child care. |
| 1:43.4 | It's expensive and there's not enough quality options to meet the demand. |
| 1:48.0 | Now one of the things I discovered was that there was only one available slot for every three children that needed care and the cost can |
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